Posted on 10/28/2001 1:27:22 PM PST by father_elijah
Open minded ? [sic] Hopefully I'm diarming [sic] the religious fanatics. Do the radical Islamics ring a bell in your little brain ? [sic]It is quite amazing that in a post with three errors you refer to someone else as having a little brain. If you cannot see any differences between Islam and Catholicism you are quite clearly the one with the little brain.
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I suspect that the description of holiness will end up sounding like a description of those graven images in your local church of Rome. You know, the ones they don't worship.Does your home have any images in it? Do you worship them?
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A religious fanatic is a religious fanatic. Thats all I will say.Of course, and it is true simply because you say so. Wiley merely blurts out his opinion, and so it is. There are many kinds of faiths out there, and not all are equal, not all are the same, and very few of them produce men willing to fly a jet into the side of a building. Your hatred of faith blinds you.
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The Gospel at Mass today was the Gospel of the Pharisee and the Publican. You know that one?
You guys worry a lot about our supposed sins of "idolatry". In fact, you worry a whole lot more about our supposed sins of idolatry than any Christian ought to worry about any one else's sins. I don't recall spending much of my life worrying about your sins. I worry about my own.
I would like some proof that any of you are at a sufficiently advanced state of spiritual development that you are in a position to instruct any of the Catholics on this thread. Please, each of you, detail for us a time when you committed the sin of idolatry in your own life, how you recognized it, how you repented of it, and how you lived that repentance. That way we'll know you know something of idolatry besides the fact that it gives you an excuse to point the finger. This sin of idolatry must not have any relationship to Catholicism; I want to see some capacity for self-criticism, not "Rome-criticism".
Failing that, why don't you just admit that you're all acting like Pharisees and shut up for a change.
And apparently all you're capable of saying. Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan were both politicians, but there was a world of difference between them.
I believe in god but I do not believe in Popes, Kings or Elvis/Me too. I also dont believe in Presidents, Congressmen, Chocolate, Soldiers, or anything else. My faith is in God. I trust Gods Word. When that Word states that it has chosen Peter to shepard His flock, I obey God.
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You mean an abridged Bible.
Jeremiah 23:26-27
Revelation 11:18
Revelation 14:1
Revelation 22:4
All these scriptures mention MY NAME and the fact that men have forgotten MY NAME!!
What NAME do you call Him? I call Him by His Hebrew Name: Yahweh.
The Word was made flesh.
God bless,
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PING and FLAG
I believe that Sister Lucy has said that it deals with apostasy. I suppose there are several ideas as to what apostasy is, but one that I read was when James and others considered Paul apostate for falling away from the Law. (Saying that the Law was dead).
If that is a reasonable definition of apostate, it would certainly fit in with what Sister Lucy said. For there are a great many that have fallen away from the Law.
It seems that she also said it would have a negative impact on the church. And if people have been deceived about the Law being dead, well, that would sure have a negative impact!
Satan knows the right address. When we are attacked from all sides, we should be the most at ease, and it should deepen our faith. The libs, the pop cons, the homosexual advocates, the greens, the reds, the feminazis, the atheists, the fundies, the Jack Chicks...what do they all have as least common denominator? Anti-Catholicism.
Satan knows the right address, even if individually they do not.
You would think the fundies would look at the company they keep (The libs, the pop cons, the homosexual advocates, the greens, the reds, the feminazis, the atheists) and "come out of her."
Was Peter chosen after the death of James, who was the head of the Jerusalem church after the crucifixion?Peter was chosen by Jesus Christ, so it would have been before the death of James. This is of course based on the Catholic view that the Bible clearly sets forth that Peter was the Rock, and was told to tend our Lords sheep. Obviously, this is disputed by many here.
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